The Cape Peninsula University of Technology committed to insourcing security guards and workers on Monday.

CPUT workers signed their insourcing pre-contracts on Monday after a week long student-worker struggle that led to a temporary shutdown of the institution last week.

The temporary shutdown was centered on two issues: insourcing of workers and request to the university to submit motivations to the National Prosecuting Authority for the dropping of Fees Must Fall criminal charges.

Speaking to Vernac News worker’s leader Arthur Xolani said that though he welcomed the progress made he felt that they had received a ‘blank cheque’ as details of the agreement such as income scale are yet to be ironed out.
The commitment to insourcing is expected to change the lives of CPUT workers as they stand to gain all benefits associated with CPUT employees. They are expected to have access to medical aid which was previously not accessible on their outsourced contracts, better wages and job security. However the full details of the agreement are yet to be concluded.

The University has also made commitment to submit motivational letters to the courts to ‘allow all students charged to complete their studies at CPUT’.

Classes continued as normal on Monday at the Bellville Campus. Security and cleaning workers are expected to return to work on Tuesday.